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Bargain and
Replenish
I'm doing the Replenish and Yawgmoth's Bargain decks together as the two cards started out in the same combo deck, and their histories have been pretty much mirrored. The first major tournament that Replenish and Yawgmoth's Bargain were legal in was the 1998 U.S. Nationals. There were three different deck builds played there that used Yawgmoth's Bargain. One was played by Your Move Games team member David Humphrerys to a top eight finish. His deck was built around the replenish/Yawgmoth's Bargain/Seismic Assault combo, and the entire deck was built around getting the combo off as soon as possible. Yawgmoth's Bargain/Replenish US Nationals 1998 SPELLS (33) The second Yawgmoth's Bargain deck was played to a top eight finish by Charles Kornblith. His deck was also built arounf the Bargain/Replenish/Assault combo, but was much more controlling, running Forbids and utility enchantments to be able to play a long game if needed. Kornblith Bargain US Nationals 1998 SPELLS (36) The third deck didn't run Replenish, but was built around Yawgmoth's Bargain and Turnabout. Named the Phantom Menace by its designer Zvi Mowshowitz, Zvi played it to a top four finish at the Nationals. Phantom Menace US Nationals 1998 SPELLS (40) The Phantom Menace was a much harder deck to play well, but never the less remained the more played of the decks until the Tempest Block was rotated out of Type Two play. When that happened, Replenish and Bargain decks became two seperate, and equally viable decktypes. There were two versions of the Bargain deck that was widely played. The first, and more popular of the two was Sabre Bargain, which was built around using Academy Rector, Voltaic Key, and Grim Monolith to get out a quick Yawgmoth's Bargain, and then discard cards to Skirge Familiar to generate the mana nessessary to cast Soul Feast four times. It would then cast Yawgmoth's Will, and recast the Soul Feasts out of its graveyard, killing its opponent. Jon Finkel played the deck at the Magic Invitational 1999-2000. Sabre Bargain Magic Invitational 1999-2000 4x Academy Rector 4x Skirge Familiar 4x Dark Ritual 4x Grim Monolith 3x Renounce 4x Soul Feast 4x Vampiric Tutor 3x Tooth of Ramos 3x Voltaic Key 3x Yawgmoth's Bargain 2x Yawgmoth's Will 4x Peat Bog 4x Phyrexian Tower 5x Plains 3x Remote Farm 6x Swamp Sideboard 1x Circle of Protection: Red 2x Disenchant 4x Duress 1x Massacre 3x Perish 4x Phyrexian Negator The second version used the same kill mechanic, but instead of using Grim Monoliths and Voltaic Keys for acceleration, it used Radiant's Dragoons and Exhume to survive games against beatdown decks better than the Sabre version. Exhume Bargain 1 Yawgmoth's Will At the same time, the popular Replenish deck to play was Parallax Replenish, designed by Donald Lim and another person (unfortunately, his name slips my mind right now, but if he happens to read this and e-mails me, I'll gladly give him credit). The Parallax Replenish deck was built around using Frantic Search and Attunement to discard enchantments like Opalescence, Parallax Wave and Tide, and putting them back into plsy with Replenish. The deck was widely played during the 1999-2000 Pro Tour Season, but the most successful deck of that type had to be Tom van de Logt's version at the 2000 Worlds, where he finished 5th with it. Parallax Replenish 2000 World Championships 3x Enlightened Tutor 4x Replenish 1x Wrath of God 1x Seal of Cleansing 4x Opalescence 4x Parallax Wave 1x Mystical Tutor 1x Seal of Removal 1x Energy Field 3x Counterspell 3x Parallax Tide 4x Attunement 4x Frantic Search 1x Sky Diamond 4x Rishadan Port 4x Adarkar Wastes 8x Plains 9x Island Sideboard 1x Cursed Totem 1x Chill 2x Lilting Refrain 2x Submerge 2x Daze 3x Erase 2x Wrath of God 1x Circle of Protection: Black 1x Seal of Cleansing Soon after the 2000 Worlds, Urza's Block was rotated out of Type Two play, and you could no longer play Replenish or Bargain decks in Type 2. Before this happened, Yawgmoth's Bargain was banned in Extended, and restricted in Type 1, which meant the decktype was pretty much dead. Replenish, however, lived on in Extended as Pandeburst. Pandeburst is a deck built around the Pandemonium/Saproling Burst combo which dealt 21 points of damage to its opponent, which was often enough to win the game. Exact decklists varied greatly, but all of them were built around the Pandemonium/Saproling Burst combo. Here is a sample decklist for Pandeburst. Pandeburst Circa 2001 4x Replentish 4x Arcane Denial 4x Attunement 2x Counterspell 4x Force of Will 4x Frantic Search 4x Intuition 4x Pandemonium 4x Saproling Burst 4x Mox Diamond 4x Adarkar Wastes 9x Island 4x Plains 1x Reflecting Pool 4x Tundra On April 1st, 2001, however, the DCI banned Replenish from Extended tournaments. The deck has seen some use in type 1, however, and Koichiro Maki used a version of it at the Magic Invitational 1999-2000. Koichiro Maki's Pandeburst Magic Invitational 1999-2000 4x Bazaar of Baghdad 4x Saproling Burst 4x Pandemonium 4x Replenish 4x Squee, Goblin Nabob 4x Duress 4x Dark Ritual 2x Demonic Consultation 1x Demonic Tutor 1x Yawgmoth's Will 1x Vampiric Tutor 1x Mana Crypt 1x Lim-Dul's Vault 1x Balance 1x Intuition 1x Time Walk 1x Ancestral Recall 1x The Abyss 1x Black Lotus 1x Library of Alexandra 1x Mox Jet 1x Mox Sapphire 1x Mox Pearl 1x Mox Emerald 1x Mox Ruby 1x Mana Vault 4x City of Brass 4x Gemstone Mine 2x Scrubland 1x Underground Sea 1x Sol Ring Sideboard 1x Sacred Ground 2x Spiritual Focus 2x Defense Grid 3x Red Elemental Blast 2x Abeyance 1x Aura of Silence 3x Seal of Cleansing 1x Lobotomy Ok, for fun, I'm going to include a deck that were type two legal during the 1999-2000 Pro Tour season. The deck didn't see much play, but it was a fun deck. The deck was built around Yawgmoth's Bargain, and Food Chain. It would drop a creature that dealt direct damage to your opponent, and then use Food Chain to provide the mana to play another creature. Chain Bargain 4x Yawgmoth's Bargain 3x Food Chain 4x Dark Ritual 4x Grim Monolith 4x Birds of Paradise 4x Ghitu Slinger 4x Keldon Champion 3x Highway Robber 2x Staunch Defenders 2x Radiant's Dragoons 2x Renounce 4x Academy Rector 4x City of Brass 4x Peat Bog 4x Hickory Woodlot 3x Phyrexian Tower 3x Brushland 2x Thran Quarry Ok, that's it for this article. be sure to come here next time when I go over the Stasis deck. Matt "Hydramon" Ladwig Note: As always, Comments and questions are appreciated. All e-mails go to KainTheCursed@Hotmail.com |
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